Month: April 2013

(Reuters) – President Barack Obama weighed into Washington’s budget wars on Wednesday with a third entry that offers Republicans a modest concession on entitlement programs but demands that the wealthy pay more in taxes. His fiscal 2014 budget request is closer in most respects to the modest budget savings passed by Senate Democrats last month than to the deep cuts passed by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives aimed at achieving a surplus by 2023. …

Scientists Make Transparent Mouse Brains for Research        

(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday it is requesting a budget of $4.7 billion in fiscal 2014, including $295.8 million to implement new food safety regulations. The proposed budget represents an increase over the $4.03 billion included in the 2013 budget after automatic spending cuts mandated by Congress, known as the sequester. The FDA is financed in part with funds authorized by Congress and in part by fees charged to industry to cover the cost of reviewing and approving new drugs. The agency’s commissioner, Dr. …

The number of STDs is going up. That’s true for the population as a whole, and virtually all Americans are, at least theoretically, at risk of contracting one.

Addison Cox has beaten all the odds and will be celebrating her 2nd birthday after she contracted in utero the deadly cancer that killed her mother.        

LONDON (AP) — Robert Edwards, a Nobel laureate from Britain whose pioneering in vitro fertilization research led to the first test tube baby and has since brought millions of people into the world, died Wednesday at age 87.